jjmac wrote:I did mentioned carraged. I was thinking of these containers i saw once where a drive was just inserted into it then it could be connected to a controller socked via flat cable. Seemed neat enough, i guess it was designed to give it some stability. But not ultimately neccessary. Just something to plug into as a temporary measure, would do.

jm

i used to use one for my linux drive before i rebuilt colin they are quite handy in an emergency paul

Arrr, so you recognise that nelz ... i suppose it could be thought of as a kind of adapter, if thats the right word. But my memory is scratchy on that. Though it could only have been a year or so ago, maybe two. It didn't seem such a bad idea really.

You can get adaptors that connect ot an IDE drive and a USB port. I've got one and it's crap. You can also get enclosures that hold a PATA/SATA drive with USB/Firewire connections to the computer. I've got a couple of those and they are pretty good but limited by the 480Mb/s and 400Mb/s maximum speeds of USB 2.0 and Firewire.

I do find the Firewire connection slightly faster, despite the lower spec speed, which just goes to prove there are lie, damn lies and specifications.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

hmmmm, well, it would seem that the flat cable plugged into a direct ide port is the go there . It may take up some space on the side of a laptop, but that could be designed in. Possibly a hatch or sliding door could be used to keep the look smooth.

There not problems, just aspects. As the suggestion is to cover a 'when nothing else is available' recovery/emergency situation. Not as a concurrency. Especially when the inclusion would be trivial to design in. And as laptops are exercises in portable functionality, or at least should be.

If someone has just run off a cliff and are sitting on a ledge ... who cares what colour the rope is.

jjmac wrote:There not problems, just aspects. As the suggestion is to cover a 'when nothing else is available' recovery/emergency situation. Not as a concurrency. Especially when the inclusion would be trivial to design in. And as laptops are exercises in portable functionality, or at least should be.

All laptops already have this built in, in the form of USB ports. OK, it's slow, but in an emergency, who cares how fast the rope is?

If you're that stuffed that you really need to connect an IDE drive directly to a laptop, open the case

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." (Albert Einstein)

Lots will be reluctant, maybe the compaction would get in the way there. I can just imagine my niece Ally, opening a laptop case. The last time she tried to cut along the perfs on a cd/dvd wallet , oops . But she can insert a disc with the ease of a gun slinger. So maybe ...

It would be a legacy inclusion, true, and i'm sure it would somewhat bemuse the costing dept, but, it would be a good thing, like having a floppy drive available. But i can see how the port may crowd the design. The angle would have to be a suggestion, that it would help the customer believe that the company is actually thinking of them after all, and so be good for the business. (lol)

Pink rope (grin) ... Yes, never except 2nd best, even when stuck on a ledge, ... i agree there. I'd probably time out trying to decide on a colour though.

Biodegradable ! , real rope for the aesthetics, but it does tend to degrade a bit, just when it's needed too. I had a mild call with some old rope recently while doing some tree lopping. Nylon saved the day.

Ropes one of those things that, along with floppies and gaff tape, it's always good to have some around.

Biodegradable A friend of ours stored her christmas ornaments in the loft in Somerfield carrier bags, not realising that they are biodegradable..
Next year, she picked them up, and the ornaments went everywhere.

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